Pain

Pain lasts only for some time,
not very long though.

Like a leaf plucked from a branch loses its color after some days
how long this pain would survive
away from its branch

when its nourishment would end,
it will flicker a few times before dying
and then with a long breath of smoke,
this pain would also end,
it will extinguish.

Pain lasts only for some time,
not very long though.

-- Translation of Gulzar poetry